A solution if one want to avoid using biblatex would be to use bibTools.
The general idea is to create an new entry title2 with having the format \href{url}{title}. Then one need to change title to title2 in the bibliographystyle file (eg plainnat.bst see here).
I'm not sure it is the best solution but once in place it is quite convenient.
In more details:
Let's say that the followind entry is in the file test.bib.
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/osdiDeanG04,
author = {Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat},
title = {MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters},
booktitle = {OSDI},
year = {2004},
url = {http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/tech/dean.html},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/osdi 2004},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
then running the command
bibtool -- 'add.field{title2="\href{%s(url)}{%s(title)}"}' test.bib -o test1.bib
will output the file with the entry
@InProceedings{ dblp:conf/osdideang04,
author = {Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat},
title = {MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters},
booktitle = {OSDI},
year = {2004},
url = {http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/tech/dean.html},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/osdi 2004},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de},
title2 = {\href{http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/tech/dean.html}{MapReduce:
Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters}}
}
the final step would be to replace title by title2 the bibibliographystyle file. Replace title by title2 everywhere you want the link. For instance in plainnat.bst I've replace btitle by title2 as well.
Best Answer
Loading the
hyperref
package and usinggives a clickable
url
in your bibliography.alternatively you can use
which gives a link which has different text from the link. I agree with @Mico- this is probably a bad idea in general for a variety of different reasons.
Complete MWE